{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-rents-exceptions-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2016/schedule/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/390",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Housing Rents (Exceptions and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-housing-rents-exceptions-and-miscellaneous-provisions-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Relative county earnings for a property are calculated by dividing the average manual weekly earnings contained in table 1 for the area in which a property is located, by £316.40.\n(2) The areas contained in table 1 are—\n(a) the local government areas specified in the first column of the tables in Schedule 1 to the Local Government Act 1972; and\n(b) Greater London within the meaning of section 2 of the London Government Act 1963.\nTable 1\nArea\nEarnings £\nAvon\n321.20\nBedfordshire\n343.70\nBerkshire\n345.40\nBuckinghamshire\n328.30\nCambridgeshire\n330.10\nCheshire\n322.00\nCleveland\n338.40\nCornwall\n255.50\nCumbria\n323.70\nDerbyshire\n321.10\nDevon\n278.00\nDorset\n293.90\nDurham\n289.70\nEast Sussex\n281.50\nEssex\n325.90\nGloucestershire\n308.00\nGreater London\n354.10\nGreater Manchester\n307.30\nHampshire\n328.70\nHereford and Worcestershire\n289.60\nHertfordshire\n343.70\nHumberside\n318.40\nIsle of Wight\n288.50\nKent\n316.40\nLancashire\n302.70\nLeicestershire\n303.10\nLincolnshire\n286.70\nMerseyside\n324.90\nNorfolk\n302.50\nNorth Yorkshire\n299.60\nNorthamptonshire\n328.50\nNorthumberland\n276.10\nNottinghamshire\n298.00\nOxfordshire\n323.80\nShropshire\n295.40\nSomerset\n299.70\nSouth Yorkshire\n299.10\nStaffordshire\n296.20\nSuffolk\n304.30\nSurrey\n333.20\nTyne and Wear\n307.90\nWarwickshire\n326.10\nWest Midlands\n320.60\nWest Sussex\n332.50\nWest Yorkshire\n302.70\nWiltshire\n313.90",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2 in force at 1.4.2016, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 70."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1963 c. 33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/390/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:25:16.193935+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}